Architect, researcher and curator. Assistant professor, Department of Architecture of Lusofona University (ULHT), Lisbon, Portugal, and School of Arts and Design (ESAD-CR), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Master degree in Contemporary Architectural Culture in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (FA-UTL), Portugal, and is PhD candidate in Architecture and Urban Culture in the School of Architecture of University of Coimbra (DARQ-UC), Portugal. His research interests are contemporary theory of architecture and urban culture. He is working group leader in the European project Writing Urban Places: New Narratives of the European City. He develops a multifaceted activity encompassing professional practice, teaching, criticism, curatorship and publishing. He was the winner, with Maria Rita Pais, of FAD Award of Theory and Criticism 2020 with the book Journey into the Invisible.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.